You realize that a lot of stuff they were sticking on tanks was to defeat the Javelin? You simply can't put a big enough warhead on a man portable missile to d

You realize that a lot of stuff they were sticking on tanks was to defeat the Javelin? You simply can't put a big enough warhead on a man portable missile to defeat the main armor of a modern tank. Thus you do not actually want to hit the tank--the purpose of the Javelin is to fly *over* the target tank, when it's overhead it's warhead detonates, firing an explosively formed projectile down into the *top* armor of the tank. Those cages were meant to keep the Javelin from getting to the right spot to do that.